Germany's Beech lumber exports are strengthening their decline. In July 2011, exports were 4.5% in the red, in August exports fell by 19% compared to the reference month last year. Even in the eight-month-calculation figures show a decrease of 2%. Similar to Beech logs, demand from China dropped.
The averaged August-prices for the major destinations of Beech lumber are: China € 274/cbm (ø I-VIII/2011: € 259/cbm), Poland € 289/cbm (270), U.S. € 384/cbm (363) India € 275/cbm (259) and the Netherlands € 270/cbm (245).
Beech Lumber (Fagus spp) – Export |
Volume (cbm) | Value (million euros) | ||||||
Aug 2010 |
Aug 2011 |
Jan – Aug 2010 |
Jan – Aug 2011 |
Aug 2010 |
Aug 2011 |
Jan – Aug 2010 |
Jan – Aug 2011 |
|
China |
9,107 | 6,783 | 64,807 | 74,875 | 2.27 | 1.86 | 16.04 | 19.42 |
U.S. |
3,170 | 3,644 | 27,669 | 27,390 | 1.20 | 1.40 | 9.86 | 9.96 |
Poland | 3,467 | 2,021 | 25,481 | 27,983 | 0.90 | 0.58 | 6.67 | 7.55 |
India |
1,917 | 1,865 | 10,701 | 13,516 | 0.50 | 0.51 | 2.61 | 3.50 |
Netherlands | 1,027 | 1,278 | 14,647 | 9,418 | 0.23 | 0.35 | 2.95 | 2.31 |
Malaysia |
723 | 992 | 3,772 | 5,088 | 0.22 | 0.31 | 1.09 | 1.60 |
United Arab Emirates |
630 | 876 | 6,478 | 4,378 | 0.29 | 0.39 | 2.85 | 2.01 |
Belgium | 1,133 | 811 | 7,813 | 7,461 | 0.29 | 0.19 | 2.02 | 2.16 |
Great Britain |
1,410 | 696 | 11,082 | 7,989 | 0.68 | 0.32 | 5.34 | 3.83 |
Japan | 391 | 670 | 2,714 | 3,699 | 0.16 | 0.29 | 1.15 | 1.67 |
Israel |
1,116 | 573 | 6,977 | 5,576 | 0.52 | 0.24 | 3.10 | 2.54 |
Mexico |
395 | 543 | 2,204 | 3,113 | 0.17 | 0.22 | 0.87 | 1.31 |
Saudi Arabia |
374 | 413 | 2,053 | 2,921 | 0.19 | 0.25 | 0.96 | 1.43 |
TOTAL |
31,732 | 25,657 | 258,416 | 252,058 | 10.34 | 8.94 | 83.71 | 84.16 |